Thank you for spearheading this, Mark,
But, I don't think you are going far enough. It has already been
expressed by several on this thread that a 5C change is insufficient
correction for many situations. I propose a much more productive change
of lowering "room temperature" to 4 Kelvin. This would rapidly lead to
Nobel Prize winning discoveries, such as room-temperature
superconductors. I think, in that light, the minor inconvenience of
being more specific about temperature in our papers is well worth it.
And, as an aside, I hope you don't mind me pointing out that energy
doesn't always have to come from burning carbon. Carbon doesn't even
have the highest energy density. You can see from this table:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density_Extended_Reference_Table
that other fuels are much more effective.
HTH,
-James Holton
MAD Scientist
On 4/1/2024 7:29 AM, Mark wrote:
Room temperature change from 25ºC to 20ºC
As a member of the inter-society standards commission St-Incent I have
been asked to take the bearings of the structural biology community
regarding a proposal to lower the universally understood room
temperature from 25ºC (77º Fahrenheit) to 20ºC (68º Fahrenheit).
Obvious advantages would be less heating necessary for experiments at
this standard temperature. Given that laboratories nowadays are not
commonly heated to this high temperature anyway, it does appear to
make sense.
Members of tropical and subtropical countries have already expressed
opposition to the proposal, because they have to reach room
temperature by cooling rather than heating, so for them the proposal
would mean more CO2 emissions, not less.
Please express opinions to this list today, so that I have time to
collate them before the local deadline of 28 December.
Mark J van Raaij
Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas, lab 20B
Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC
calle Darwin 3
E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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